Snowman/Snow Golem

A snow golem is born by stacking two snow blocks stacked on top of each other and one jack-o-lantern or pumpkin on top of them. This process is not done on the crafting screen.

The final appearance of the snow golem differs from the picture tweeted by Notch below, as its head is a carved pumpkin, rather than akin to a snowman's.

The snow golem is a 'friendly' mob and will throw snowballs at enemies that come too close to it. While these snowballs do not damage enemy mobs (exept Blazes), they do provide knockback - so snowmen are still useful. This mob will melt in biomes such as deserts.

History

On September 21, 2011, Notch tweeted [n], "Got frustrated with AWS, so I made a new mob! :D" The Snow Golem was born.

Notch described the snow golem: "It will be craftable, is friendly, and throws snowballs at enemies. Also melts in hot biomes".

"Also, they spread snow by walking around. Nice".

"The snowmen are ridiculously suicidal, throwing snowballs at creepers and spiders, annoying them to attack the snowmen...snowballs deal 0 damage".

On the name of the new mob, Notch clarified, "Sorry, did I say 'snow man', I meant to say 'SNOW GOLEM', of course."